The Christian studying and practicing Apologetics must always have a gentle and reverent spirit.

"..sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear."
~ 1 Peter 3:15 (KJV)

"But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to every one who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence."
~ 1 Peter 3:15 (NASB)

Josh McDowell wrote in his famous book, The Evidence That Demands A Verdict, that the motivation for using the lecture notes it to glorify and magnify Jesus Christ - not to win an argument. (1)

The Apologist’s Evening Prayer

From all my lame defeats and oh! much more
From all the victories that I seemed to score;
From cleverness shot forth on Thy behalf
At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh;
From all my proofs of Thy divinity,
Thou, who wouldst give no sign, deliver me.
Thoughts are but coins. Let me not trust instead
Of Thee, their thin-worn image of Thy head.
From all my thoughts, even from my thoughts of Thee,
O thou fair Silence, fall, and set me free.
Lord of the narrow gate and the needle’s eye,
Take from me all my trumpery lest I die.

~ By C.S. Lewis

“We cannot pander to a man’s intellectual arrogance,
but we must cater to his intellectual integrity”
~ John Stott (13)

“We suggest that this practice of expanding or enriching one apologetic approach by incorporating elements of other approaches is just what apologists should do. We doubt that it is possible, or even desirable, to formulate a “fifth” apologetic system that would wholly combine and thus supersede the four basic approaches. Rather than striving to produce the perfect single apologetic system or method or model that all apologists should use, we think Christians should start from the best approach they know and augment or refine it using whatever they can from other approaches.” (5)

Apologetics (TH201)with Dr. Ron Nash
Biblical Training.orgThese 5 lectures are a summary of Dr. Nash's introductory course to Christian Apologetics. They were recorded by Biblical Training in Orlando, Florida during the summer of 2003.

Christian Apologeticswith Dr. Ron Nash (TH301)Biblical Training.org
This an introductory course to Christian Apologetics. These lectures were given at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida during the fall of 2001.